University choir
Faculty of Education, MBU, Banská Bystrica
Conductor: Peter Bibza
The choir is a representative and instructive vocal ensemble of the Matej Bela University Banská Bystrica. With the significant support of the university management, it provides opportunities for all-round cultural development and enables students, graduates, teachers, employees as well as students of other universities to develop cultural, vocal and choral arts on the university grounds.
He regularly participates in competitive tours, foreign tours, educational concerts, workshops and educational events in the city, district, region and in Europe. It organizes educational, Advent, Christmas and New Year's concerts and participates in artistic performances of selected graduates. He participates in various projects within international symposia and workshops.
The university choir was founded in 1969 and was led by several conductors. The founding conductor was Tibor Sedlický, after which the choir was taken over and led for many years by Milan Pazúrik in addition to them, also worked in the choir Darina Turňová, Hana Kováčová, Alfonz Poliak, PhD., Barbora Brosová Lipková. In the academic year 2021/22, the choir was led by Mgr. art. et Mgr. Monika Bažíková, ArtD.
During his tenure, he attended numerous concerts and performances. He participated and successfully presented at several festivals and competitions, from which he has received quite a few awards.
In dramaturgy, he focuses on the study of compositions of all stylistic periods and the development of the history of music. Starting with the music of the old masters from the period of Renaissance polyphony, world and our classics and romantics, to the compositions of contemporary domestic and foreign composers. In addition to artificial compositions, the choir also presents various arrangements and artistic processing of folk songs, spirituals or popular compositions by renowned composers.
The current conductor and artistic director is Peter Bibza.